If you are familiar with the Internet at all, just the mention of the word “scraper” can bring about tremors (or elation if you happen to have an evil streak). Personally, I like playing with scraping just to see what I can do from a programming perspective, but the idea of using someone else’s content [...]

If you are reading this then I bet I have nothing I can add to the discussion of support for the new canonical URL tags by Google, Yahoo, and Live that was recently announced.  If by chance you have not, here are links for the spin by each engine:

Google
Yahoo
Live

Technical interpretations abound, including:

SEOmoz
Search Engine Land
Yoast (with [...]

Why Not?
Actually, I thought about ending the post there, just to be like some university psych professor trying to quiz you.  You know, like the old urban myth of the student who answered the Psych question “Why?” with “Why not?” and got an A on the test. I’ve yet to see proof.
But really, why not? [...]

I recently read a post about social media possibly being a waste of time over at Makak Media. Their argument was that one can spend countless hours on social media sites trying to drum up traffic to your site, with only spikes of traffic really to show for it (I paraphrase of course). And you [...]